In Hollywood and the games community's ongoing quest to change history for the better prove that games can make good movies, EA and Fox have announced that they're planning to adapt hit game Spore for the big screen. Ice Age's Chris Wedge will direct what's perhaps the weirdest game-to-film crossover yet.
Spore, y'see, is a god-game in the same way that The Sims or Civilisation is, with players controlling the evolution of their world from single-cell organism via tribal creatures and early civilisation to (hopefully) intelligent space-faring species. It is, in other words, not your traditional three-act structure.
The film will be an "animated creature feature" according to Variety, which should come as no surprise with Wedge directing. But should he need some time to figure out how the heck to reflect the game onscreen, he's got other projects to occupy him: he's also signed up to direct the live action The Inventions of Hugo Cabret at Warners (gorgeous children's book, check it out) and an animated adaptation of Leaf Men for Fox, based on the book The Leaf Men And The Brave Good Bugs by William Joyce.